Movies:
Club Dread
DVD Release: Club Dread
- Release Date: 2004
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- Includes audio commentaries by Broken Lizard comedy team members
DVD Release: Club Dread [Unrated]
- Release Date: 2004
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- Extended movie version not shown in theaters
- Full-length audio commentaries by all five Broken Lizard Comedy Team members
- 22 deleted/extended scenes with optional audio commentary by Jay Chandrasekhar and Erik Stolhanske
- Original theatrical trailer
- And more
- Rating:
- Genre: Comedy
- Movie Type: Parody/Spoof, Horror Comedy
- Themes: Nightmare Vacations, Serial Killers, Stranded on an Island
- Director: Jay Chandrasekhar
- Main Cast: Bill Paxton, Jay Chandrasekhar, Kevin Heffernan, Steve Lemme, Paul Soter, Erik Stolhanske, Brittany Daniel, Jordan Ladd, Lindsay Price
- Release Year: 2004
- Country: US
- Run Time: 103 minutes
- MPAA Rating: R
Plot
Following up their breakthrough film, 2001's Super Troopers, the Broken Lizard comedy troupe, comprised of Jay Chandrasekhar, Kevin Heffernan, Steve Lemme, Paul Soter, and Erik Stolhanske, took aim at the horror genre and delivered Club Dread. Starring the five members of the troupe along with Bill Paxton, the film is set at an anything-goes tropical resort for swingers. When a psychotic killer starts offing the guests with a razor sharp machete, it's up to the staff to hide the carnage, lest they lose the business of the unsuspecting surviving guests. As with Super Troopers and the first Broken Lizard film Puddle Cruiser, Chandrasekhar directs. ~ Matthew Tobey, All Movie GuideReview
Occupying a strange, near superfluous celluloid limbo somewhere between Club Paradise (1986) and Friday the 13th (1980), Broken Lizard's Club Dread does offer some moments of inspired insanity despite the filmmakers' failure to even out the script and pacing problems that plagued the group's breakthrough comedy Super Troopers. The laughs certainly flow more frequently here, but perhaps as a result, they seem so diluted that they lose the unhinged punchiness that made the best moments of Super Troopers so hilarious. Though it does sustain the loose, easygoing aesthetic of the aforementioned sleeper hit, the comedy troupe's third feature (counting their little-seen first outing Puddle Cruiser) also suffers by aiming at a target that's already been fired upon a few too many times; it certainly would have been more effective had it been released among such early '80s slasher parodies as Student Bodies (1981) and Pandemonium (1982). Delayed reaction arguments aside, Club Dread does -- when all is said and done -- mirror the stalk-and-slash efforts of yesteryear down to the most minute details, and the supernaturally-charged killer of Club Dread is on-target for the genre even if the film itself does come a few decades too late. It's obvious from many of the ideas here that Broken Lizard is truly a creative and inspired bunch (a few inventive kills even offer some unexpectedly tense moments); it just would have been nice to see them set their undeniably able sights on a cinematic trend that hadn't already been so well-tread. ~ Jason Buchanan, All Movie GuideCast
- Bill Paxton - Coconut Pete
- Jay Chandrasekhar - Putman
- Kevin Heffernan - Lars
- Steve Lemme - Juan
- Paul Soter - Dave
- Erik Stolhanske - Sam
- Brittany Daniel - Jenny
- Jordan Ladd - Penelope
- Lindsay Price - Yu
M.C. Gainey - Hank; Michael Weaver - Roy; Nat Faxon - Manny; Samm Levine - Dirk; Dan Montgomery - Rolo; Elena Lyons - Stacy; Tanja Reichert - Kellie; Tony Amendola; Richard Perello - Cliff; Julio Bekhor - Carlos; Michael Yurchak - Burke; Greg Cipes - Trevor; Ryan Faulkner - Marcel; Veronica Segura - Zoe
